In re Alice Y. CA2/1

BACKGROUND

Alice was born in July 2024. Two days after Alice was born, an unidentified person called the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and reported, “[M]other and father have been involved in domestic violence incidents from September 2023 to July 2024. . . . On at least one occasion, father beat mother up and dragged her to a car.” The caller heard a loud altercation 10 days earlier, which was about a week before Alice was born. At the beginning of the dependency proceedings, father was incarcerated, and Alice was released to mother’s custody. Alice remained in mother’s custody throughout the proceedings. By order dated April 28, 2025, this court took judicial notice of the juvenile court’s final judgment. The juvenile court’s final judgment awarded mother and father joint legal custody and mother sole physical custody. The final judgment provided monitored visits for father.

3 1. Petition The petition as sustained alleged failure to neglect under section 300, subdivision (b)(1)(A)3 based on father’s domestic violence and his creation of a dangerous home environment caused by father’s storage of suspected drugs near Alice. The petition…